About this role
<div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>About the Job</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Project Title</strong>: Development of a Framework for Assessment of Organisational Social Impact</span></p></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>What You Will Be Doing</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Project summary:</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">The SUSS Sustainability Committee is seeking a Research Fellow to support a project on assessment of organisational maturity in social impact. The project aims to design and validate a Social Impact Maturity and Effectiveness Framework—a comprehensive tool for assessing how businesses and non-profit organisations in Singapore create and enhance social impact. Using mixed methods (focus groups, surveys, and interviews), the study will develop self-assessment, stakeholder, and independent assessor evaluation instruments that help organisations benchmark and strengthen their social sustainability practices.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">The appointment is expected to last one year, subject to satisfactory performance and project needs.</span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"> </p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Job Scope:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Conduct literature reviews on social sustainability and impact measurement frameworks</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Support data collection, including recruiting and coordinating expert panels, scheduling and conducting focus groups, transcribing qualitative interviews, and administering surveys</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Identify and liaise with organisations, associations, and companies to participate in the study, including outreach to potential survey respondents</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Perform data cleaning, analysis, and synthesis</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Contribute to drafting of report, visualisation of findings, and preparation of conference and journal papers</span></li> <li style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Provide administrative and project management support (tracking milestones, developing interview and participation communication protocols, and IRB correspondence)</span></li> </ul></div></div><div style="padding:10.0px 0.0px;border:1.0px solid transparent"><div style="font-size:20.0px;word-wrap:break-word"><H2 style="font-size:1.0em;margin:0.0px"><b>Job Requirements</b></H2> </div><div><p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Qualification / Experience Required:</strong></span></p> <ul style="text-align:justify"> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Bachelor’s degree (Honours preferred) or Master’s degree in related field</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Prior research assistantship experience, especially involving human participants and IRB processes</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Demonstrated ability in quantitative and qualitative research, including use of SPSS, NVivo, and Qualtrics</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Strong attention to detail, independence, and reliability</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Comfort liaising with organisations and external partners</span></li> <li style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Familiarity with social-impact metrics</span></li> </ul> <p style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt"><strong>Applications should be made to:</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:10.0pt">Ms Seo Cai Ling (email: <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>), Manager (Sustainability), Office of the Vice President (Corporate), Singapore University of Social Sciences, 463 Clementi Road, Singapore 599494</span></p></div></div></div>